Improvement in pruning-imflement



ldtitr ttrt GEORGE F, WATERS, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

Letters Patent No. 90,618, dated May25, 1869.

IMPROVEMENT IN PRUNlING-IMPLEMENT.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making pari: of the same.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE F. WATERS, of Bos-A ton, in the county of Suffolk, and State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Pruning-Implementsrand I do hereby declare that the following, taken in connection with the drawings which accompany and form part of this specification, is a description of my invention, sutiieient to enable those skilled in the art to practise it.'

Letters Patent No. 58,326 were granted to me, September' 25, 1866, for au improvement in pruning-instruments, in which 'I made use ofl an eccentric cutter, formed on or as the -short arm of a lever, to be forced toward and into a slotted hooked jaw; and

My present invention consists in the combination with said implement of a saw, so pivoted to the fulcrum of the cutter, that it may be extended above the hook wit-l1 which the cutter works, when it is desiredto' make use of the saw, or so that it may be turned downward on the shank of the implement when not in use. f

The drawings show, in-

Figure 1, my patented pruning-instrmnent, with a saw added thereunto, in the position in which it is placed when ready for use; and

Figure 2 shows the same, with the saw turned down upon the shank, out of the way, and protected by the shank.

In the drawinga represents a casting, formed at one end with a socket to iit upon 'a pole, or handle, c, of any desired length, the other end of the casting being formed as a hook, b, slotted, or formed with two jaws, or sides parallel to each other, and located at a little distance apart, the eccentric cutter Z being pivoted to and between said parts or jaws of the hook, and arranged so as to be operated by the link, or rod which conf nects the cutter to the hand-lever e.

On the screw-pivot f of the cutter, andlocated between the two yielding, or dishingspring-Washers, one on either side, is placed the saw g', with its but-end so shaped, that when the saw is made to assume the position Qseen in fig. 1, said end will catch and hold against a shoulder formed on the casting a b, at the line x x, said shoulder being so located and arranged, with respect to the saw-teeth, that pressure on the saw, exerted in the uct of sawing, will bring the butend of the saw closely into Contact with the shoulder on the casting. soas to maintain the saw in line with the handle e.

When the saw is not needed for use, it is turned down along the length'of the handle e, andis caught and secured under the hook h, which is inserted .in the handle for that purpose, as seen invig. 2. r

It will readily be seen that the saw can be easily detached from its pivot, when it is necessary to file the teeth, and that the weight of the implement is increased only by lthe weight of the saw-blade and the washers around itsv pivot.

Also, that the position of the saw, in line with the handle c, is the most effective for the eiiicient use of the saw, and the one in which the saw is least liable to he injured by side strains or twists.

The saw, being lat the extreme end of the implement, may be worked without hooking branches and twigs, which would be done if the same was located 

